Intelligent Product Lifecycle Management

智能产品生命周期管理

• 批准号: 419824-2011
• 负责人: Lin, Fuhua
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Athabasca University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=495490
• 关键词: Intelligent; Product; Lifecycle; Management

In order to be spending more prudently, consumers need to be equipped with information such as what products they own; the products' features; warranty information; and resale value. As products are purchased over the years (from thousands of items in a household to millions in a corporation), such information may not be easily accessible when it comes time to make another purchase. Warranty Life allows its users to enter information about the products that they own or recently purchased into the system using structured input forms or by submitting their electronic receipts to the Web site after which a human operator will input the information on behalf of the user; this information will become later accessible and searchable to/by the user. However, there are challenges that impede this process, including: 1) the numerosity of the items that each user (e.g., a large corporation) owns makes the initial information input process slow and tedious; and 2) the use of different terminologies to describe similar items and products (e.g., laptop and notebook) causes ambiguity in product description and inhibits efficient product search and retrieval. This research project attempts to address these two major issues.

为了更谨慎地消费，消费者需要了解他们拥有的产品、产品功能、保修信息和转售价值等信息。由于产品是多年来购买的（从家庭中的数千件物品到公司中的数百万件物品），当需要进行另一次购买时，这些信息可能不容易获得。Warranty Life允许其用户使用结构化输入表单或通过将其电子收据提交到网站来将关于其拥有或最近购买的产品的信息输入到系统中，之后人工操作员将代表用户输入信息;该信息将在以后可由用户访问和搜索。然而，存在阻碍该过程的挑战，包括：1）每个用户（例如，大公司）所拥有的使得初始信息输入过程缓慢且繁琐;以及2）使用不同的术语来描述类似的项目和产品（例如，膝上型计算机和笔记本计算机）导致产品描述中的模糊性，并抑制有效的产品搜索和检索。本研究项目试图解决这两个主要问题。